Metro rail services in the city were disrupted on the Dakshineswar-Kavi Subhas route during peak hours today after an elderly man jumped on the tracks at the Kalighat station.
Immediately after the incident, the power line had been switched off and the man was rushed to a city hospital.
“An unidentified man suddenly jumped on the tracks at 10:28am on the down line when a Kavi Subhas-bound train was just entering the Kalighat station,” a Metro Railway spokesperson said.
As a result, Metro services were truncated between Mahanayak Uttam Kumar and Kavi Subhas as well as between Maidan and Dakshineswar from 10.28am till 11.05am, the spokesperson noted.
On July 11, a woman had committed suicide by jumping in front of a Kabi Subhas-bound train at the Girish Park Metro station. Later, she was identified as Niva Sen, 57, a resident of Shib Krishna Daw Lane in Kankurgachi.